WHY NEEDED?
Silpi Kesudas an emerging artist of Balasore in Orissa in India felt the surveillances of the languishing ancient & folk art & craft and culture of Balasore those needed revival & mass popularization in an urgent basis.He united a few art lovers & benevolent individuals and established this art & culture organisation in the name & style as Baleswari Kala Kendra in 2004 at Balasore.

Bringing the smiles with the deprived & striving artists & artisans of the society,

Exploration of unidentified areas of ancient & folk art, craft and culture to bring to mainstream,

Innovations of science & technology and modern delivery systems for value addition of art & crafts,

Optimizing the level of satisfactions of the art & craft lovers choice and

Building up a bridge in between the artists, craftsperson and art-lovers.

Aims & Objectives:

To explore the unidentified ancient & folk art & craft as well as the rich ethical & spiritual and ritual values coherence to art, culture, literature, philosophy and politics etc.,

To build up a temperament in high acceptance of art & crafts by the art-lovers,

To organize, educate, train up and professionalize the traditional, conventional and folk artists to bring them to mainstream of the contemporary art & craft world so as to enhance their basic professional skills in managing their own organizations for socio-economic liberty and self-reliance,

To organize the professional and traditional, conventional and folk artists artists into a common platform for their wider exposures to the unidentified areas of art, crafts and its related culture,

To innovate the appropriate science & technology, designs, forms and mediums for commercialization and value additions of art & crafts,

To universalize the ethics, spiritual, rituals and socio-cultural values of Baleswari Lacquer Art in enhancing the conjugal happiness and social harmony and

To share the ideas, knowledge, skills, expertise and culture including the inter-organizational relationships amongst art, craft, culture, philanthropic and spiritual organizations on the globe.